The Snatcher (
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daybreakacademy2019-01-18 09:45 am
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28 Bleach Vats Later
WHO: Avery Atchison (
subconmodo), Imelda Rivera (
no_dejare_de_quererte), Héctor (
unpocoloco), Peter Parker (
made_up_names), Souji Seta (
punches_fog), Shuuji Miwa (
willnotbeyourneighbour), Ellie Williams (
elliexir), Fakir Ansel (
schwanenritter), Bumblebee (
thebreakfastbug), Orihime Inoue (
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WHERE: North Dakota
WHEN: January 18th, 2019
WHAT: Obtaining funding for the Academy at the cost of one's dignity. Unless you're in the cleanup group.
WARNINGS: None atm. Will update as they pop up.
Note: Full mission details/plotting can be found Here
To Avery's credit, he had tried to prepare his students for this. The zombies had been the easy part. The corpses were slow and weak and as long as none of them did anything stupid they wouldn't be in danger. Wouldn't help the smell or the grossout factor, but such was life, death, and undeath.
Their clients were another matter entirely.
"It's not death that's going to be our enemy here," Avery had said during the briefing. "It's customer service." And if he wasn't allowed to rip into this bunch of stuck up jerks (literally as well as figuratively), neither was anyone else. He'd let minor acts of passive aggression slide, but that was it. And maybe, just maybe if they were lucky enough, Avery might be able to convince the bigwigs to let one or two of them fire off something or another.
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The cleanup crew is much luckier. The smell may be worse (rot and burning flesh and whatever scents habe wafted up in the wake of Coldsteel's blow-shit-up-themed office party. Avery looks to be just Abbott on his last legs as he suits up alongside everyone and hands out holy water and runecasters, all the while grumbling about how he needs a pay raise.
WHERE: North Dakota
WHEN: January 18th, 2019
WHAT: Obtaining funding for the Academy at the cost of one's dignity. Unless you're in the cleanup group.
WARNINGS: None atm. Will update as they pop up.
Note: Full mission details/plotting can be found Here
To Avery's credit, he had tried to prepare his students for this. The zombies had been the easy part. The corpses were slow and weak and as long as none of them did anything stupid they wouldn't be in danger. Wouldn't help the smell or the grossout factor, but such was life, death, and undeath.
Their clients were another matter entirely.
"It's not death that's going to be our enemy here," Avery had said during the briefing. "It's customer service." And if he wasn't allowed to rip into this bunch of stuck up jerks (literally as well as figuratively), neither was anyone else. He'd let minor acts of passive aggression slide, but that was it. And maybe, just maybe if they were lucky enough, Avery might be able to convince the bigwigs to let one or two of them fire off something or another.
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The cleanup crew is much luckier. The smell may be worse (rot and burning flesh and whatever scents habe wafted up in the wake of Coldsteel's blow-shit-up-themed office party. Avery looks to be just Abbott on his last legs as he suits up alongside everyone and hands out holy water and runecasters, all the while grumbling about how he needs a pay raise.

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[ Okay, when they'd gotten briefed on the potential of encountering literal zombies? This was not what Peter had had in mind. Like. Seriously! He traveled all the way to France for supernatural school, and now he's just back in the states serving drinks to assholes in suits. It doesn't help that these jerks ignore him at best. Even if they were nice, though, he'd be bored out of his mind. But they're not, and he has to endure comments on how they got the cut rate students this time, look at this, here's a literal homeless dude--
Yeah, that dude's getting a shrimp platter down the back of his shirt. Oops. ]
Whoops. Guess you were being a little shellfish.
[ Someone stop him before he does something worse. ]
DUMB SHIT
[ And now he's doing something worse. When he's had enough of the walking dicks, Peter decides to slip away from the group and get a good look at these zombie hordes that they're fighting. Like, zombies! Come on! He's got to fight a few of them. They're so cool.
... Okay less cool than what he was picturing. They're so incredibly slow that his spider senses aren't even bothering to go off; he just kind of stares there a moment, watching this zombie sllllowly hobble towards him. ]
Seriously? This is it?
[ Fun fact: Peter is so used to his spider senses by now that when it doesn't go off, he kind of doesn't react to obvious stimuli. Like this other zombie that's coming up behind him, about to give him a nice big bite in the arm. ]
HEADING HOME
[ Back on the plane, Peter probably has a line of adults wanting to yell at him, huh. Yeah uh. He. kind of deserves it. And he's in the plane now, so no escaping!!
When he's not being yelled at, he sort of curls up uncomfortably back in his plane chair, looking just a little bit feverish. Which is weird, he never gets sick? But today he feels distinctly glassy for some reason. Maybe he's just tired from jetlag and dumb zombie missions.
(No, it had been his close proximity to all the anti-undead weapons. Since he'd, y'know, wandered off and gotten really close to them! 95% alive means that 5% of him is still sensitive to this kind of thing. It makes him ache just enough to be uncomfortable, though the effect will be gone as soon as the plane touches down in France again.) ]
OTA
[ Anything else? Pete probably got into some antics at the hotel too. ]
Dumb shit
Peter, what the slagging hell?!
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He yelps as Bumblebee lifts him bodily, straining a bit against those massive metal fingertips. This is objectively awesome, but he's a little bit embarrassed right now?? ]
-- hey! I had it!
[ He did not, in fact, have it. ]
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[The deadpan ton of Bee's voice is enhanced by the very slight distortion from it coming through the armor's speakers.]
At what point, exactly, did wandering through a zombie horde strike you as a good idea?
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When it turned out to be the worst zombie horde ever? Look at em.
[ Gestures! At the slow-ass zombies!! ]
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Oh, right. He's being asked a question. "Well - no," he admits, looking a bit embarrassed. He shift's a bit in the robot palm so that he's properly balanced. "I was gonna fight 'em, but when I got close they were too sad to be threatening."
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If he ever met Peter's original hunter team, he was going to seriously chew them out. The Autobots had made sure he'd learned basic battlefield and weapons safety before he'd even been allowed to start putting together his armor. Concepts nobody had apparently bothered to teach Peter.
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"I was fine," he says with a sigh. Leaning back against the oversized robot fingers. "Like - dude, what's the point of a zombie mission where you don't even get to fight zombies?"
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DUMB SHIT AW YEAAA
or maybe they've both got the same level of Terminal Dumbass Diseasebut Héctor is making his way across the fields about the same time that Peter's wandering off. He glancing back every now and again, half to make sure no one's going to catch him and half just paranoia and fear that somehow these guys will see right through him and he won't notice until he's got a bullet through his skull.He doesn't know a lot of these people all that well yet, but truth be told, there is one or two he wishes he could say goodbye to. Like Imelda, who would stop him in his tracks if he tried. Or Peter, who...
Who isn't paying attention. ]
Hey. Hey! PETER!
[With a silent aching apology to someone far away, he bolts the opposite direction, back where he came, running as fast as his legs will carry him. If this were a horror movie, he'd probably be far too late with the distance between, but the thing is slow and before it can chomp at Peter, he's pushing the boy out of the way. The marks under his skill light up, and with it his arms. The flesh pulls back as the thing bits down instead upon his arm instead, those teeth grinding upon his ulna and radius bones. A bony hand has Peter shoved back, held firmly behind him, until he lets go and closes that hand to a fist. Wincing, and muttering under his breath, he says;]
Sorry.
[The zombie's nose cracks as his knuckles connect and his arm is released. Immediately, he turns around and grips Peter by the shoulders, pushing him forward and walking fast.]
Vamos, vamos.
[His marks light again, the bones with it, and once he's almost "living" again and they're a good distance away, he shouts to their clients.]
One over here!
[He winces as the explosion goes off behind them, but doesn't look back, still pushing Peter onward until they're as far away from just about everything and everyone as he can get them. He reels to face him.]
What's the matter with you?! What were you thinking?!
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Peter is expecting blood, maybe the crack of bone. What he doesn't expect is to see just the bone. Or the bony hand pushing him down and out of the way. His spider senses aren't perfect, but when there's a crack that blatant - when he can physically see the underlying reality - they sure can extrapolate a lot. Hector's like that all over, isn't he? Those marks under the skin - those were on bones, right? All this time he's been talking to a skeleton and didn't even know it.
He can only stumble wordlessly for a moment, his mouth dropping open. Hell, he won't even fuss about being kept out of the way while these ding dongs swoop in and overkill a zombie. It's not until they're a good distance away that his mouth and his brain finally start working together again. ]
Me? What were you thinking? What the hell--
[ His gaze snaps instantly to the arm that Héctor used to keep the zombies at bay. Where he'd seen literally just bone a moment before. Oh god. ]
What the hell are you?
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Listen, Peter... When I showed you what I could do, before, I... maybe wasn't entirely telling you the truth.
[That much is an understatement.]
But please, you have to understand, these guys will kill me. If not dead for a second permanent time then they'll make me wish I was. Please, please don't say anything, I swear, whatever you want from me you got it.
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[ Understatement of the YEAR, Héctor. He wouldn't be so loud about this if he weren't like. A little distressed by all of this too? Why are you a skeleton. What the actual fuck. He can still see the bone peeking through, and it does not look like a normal wound. ]
When were you gonna tell me, huh? Just drop it into casual conversation? "Hey Pete, by the way I'm literally and metaphorically dead inside"?
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He manages at least to look at a little guilty at that.]
I... well, no, but I wasn't telling anybody! Nobody knows, except for the some of the faculty. [Like that makes it better.]
It was just better for me if people didn't know I was dead! If everyone knew I'd have hunters on me trying to keep me back thinking I'm dangerous or for the sake of some stupid supernatural secrecy! I had to, I... [Did he really have to? It felt like it at the time, but now he's got this freaked out kid.] I'm sorry I didn't tell you. And that you found out like this.
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Deeeep breaths, Parker. He's still upset but. Less freaked out, maybe. ]
You could've told me anyway. I'd have kept it, I swear! I swear on my life.
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He takes a minute to cover his face with his hands, take a deep breath, collect himself. His hands drop to rub anxiously at his arm instead.]
I was trying to get home, I got sick, and when I woke up I was dead. I think my friend, or... something or someone buried me out there, in the outlands. Maybe that caused it, I really, really don't know, but I was still... here. And I found a few others like me and I figured out this magic thing a little bit more so I could look... alive... ish. But I'm dead. Very definitely dead.
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I don't hunt undead people. [ He says, in the middle of a mission where he wandered of specifically to fight the undead. Uh. His shoulders sag a little. ] Not like you anyway.
... How long have you been like this?
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(MAJOR COCO SPOILERS)
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sliding this in here to drag hector back...
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Capitalism
Peter Parker. How many times do you have to be told to watch what you're doing? [Her tone is scathing, all the force of an angry mother put behind those words. While it might not be pleasant for Peter, the man he just dumped shrimp on seems to be placate by watching him get reamed out.]
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Oh. Shit. It's Imelda. Yeah uh he's going to let himself get dragged and hope she doesn't murder him. That probably placates that dude too, since he's instantly regretting his life. ]
I couldn't help it! He has some kind of shrimp magnetic field!
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[They're still close enough for the men to overhear them--and they're certainly still watching, so she gives him something of a rough shove towards the food prep area, perhaps a little harder than she might have otherwise. And then she turns back to the clients, cementing a smile on her face.]
I'm sorry; he's a disaster waiting to happen. I just don't know what to do with him half the time. Here--let me clean this up. [She stoops to collect the dirt-covered shrimp, gathering them together on an empty plate. The men, meanwhile, have shifted their focus to her, and while that's not particularly comforting--not with the way they've taken to leering at her, at least she can handle it without dumping food on them.]
[Once she's done cleaning up after Peter, she brings the ruined shrimp back to the prep area--presumably to throw them away. If Peter is actually cleaning like she told him to, she'll give him a look over as she sets the plate on a table.]
I hope I didn't hurt you back there.
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Anyway. He stops scrubbing the plate he's on and sets it aside for a moment. And - blinks at her? He'd been bracing for another lecture. A lack of one is baffling. ]
What? Me? No way. I'm super strong.
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Hmm. Good to know. Though I'd take smart over strong right now. [That's a very pointed look being shot his way.]
What exactly prompted you to dump an entire plate of shrimp?
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He just. Looks a little stubborn at that, setting down the plate in his hands. ]
They were making fun of Héctor. Like - his everything.
[ And he knows she doesn't like him, and he knows Héctor looks scruffy, but. Dude. ]
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...And? That man can handle his own problems. Don't get yourself into trouble for his sake.
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DUMB SHIT
Mind your six, Parker.